If you are knowledgeable about YouTube SEO, it’s still not difficult to rank your posts and it’s even less difficult ranking review based posts.

You can link people back to your blog from here and you can also earn Ad revenue from YouTube, once you have enough followers, (anyone used to be able to make money from Ads, but you now need at least …. subscribers).

Social Media Channels.

If you have a large social media following on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest… this is also a way you can get additional referrals.

Again, this is going to depend on your audience on social media.

If you combine this with having a blog, it’s a way you can share your content with people who are already interested in what you’re offering.

Personally, I am not very active on social media!

The one platform I am trying to grow, is Pinterest…

But I have largely neglected social media, (so far!) and there are lots of ways you can leverage social media to get referrals.

For example; you can *boost* posts on Facebook, or experiment with Facebook Ads pretty cheaply.

However, remember that each referral is not going to be worth much to you if you’re just using the regular affiliate program.

What About When You Have Plenty Of Blog Traffic?

I started out only using the survey site referral programs directly, but once you have more traffic, you can join CPA, (cost-per-action) networks and programs, which pay you per sign up.

While you only get paid once per sign up, this can still end up being more profitable, because many referrals do not remain active, (or even become active at all in many cases!).

So, for example, I was approached directly by Swagbucksto join their CPA program and they pay to start with $1.20 per mobile sign up and $3.50 per PC sign up.

I also joined Maxbounty, which also has offers in a lot of survey sites.

You need to apply to sign up and will have to have a mini telephone or Skype call with your affiliate manager for Maxbounty, but it only takes about 5 minutes.

I think this puts some people people off, but it’s actually easier than you think.

Ok, so now I’ve given you some idea about how you can get referrals, what survey sites should you join?

The first sites I mention are the ones I recommend the most, but I also list a bunch more that are still legit sites with referral programs, but just not ones I’ve personally focused on with my blog as much.

#2 Prolific Academic:

This is one that I AM just a general affiliate for, they don’t have a CPA program.

The reason I’m including this, is because the surveys are much higher paying than other survey sites I’ve seen and as a result, people are more active and even though you get 10% of earnings, that 10% is more than a lot of sites.

You only get paid when referrals cash out, that’s the other difference.

The other day, I got a £2.60 payout ($3.32) for a referral… So, they must have cashed out £26, ($32).

Yes, the Proflific platformpays in pounds, but you can still join from the US and many other countries, their intention is to go global.

Prolific is unique because the surveys on offer are created by students for research purposes, (as opposed to companies and brands).

As a result, the surveys are so much more interesting and pay more.

But you have to be so careful completing surveys, they have questions to catch you out and ensure you’re paying attention… Only complete these surveys when you can give them 100% attention.

You can easily exchange the pounds into dollars via PayPal.

It’s unusual for me to get a pay out like that for a referral, usually because you will get paid per action your referral does on other sites.

Because the pay is more and the Cash-out amount is low, (£5 minimum) people seem more motivated to continue.

Also, you don’t just get 10% once.

You get 10% of their earnings every single time they cash-out, for the lifetime of their membership.

If they stick around doing surveys for 10 years, you get paid for 10 years.

Also, this site (so far) has less competition. The big bloggers either don’t know about it or aren’t heavily promoting it.

That’s because most pro bloggers want to only promote survey sites that they get good payouts for PER referral.

So, with some CPA programs, you could get $3+ per signup and they’d rather promote those opportunities, even if they don’t really think they are the best.

#4 PrizeRebel

This is another one I’m just a straight up affiliate for, (not with a CPA offer) but their affiliate program is a little better, because you can actually earn up to 30% commission for your referrals earnings.

It’s very similar to Swagbucks, it has a lot of the same ways to earn, although unfortunately doesn’t have a browser extension.

Another good thing is it’s popular, people seem to sign up regularly and, most importantly, take action.

As soon as you make 1000 points, your referral percentage goes up to 25%.

Once you have 16000, it goes up to 30%!

So, you do gain the ability to earn a lot more for your referrals over time. You can find my full review here.

#7 CashCrate:

Cashcrate is another site that has a variety of ways to earn, with more of an emphasis on paid offers.

They also have plenty of surveys and some additional ways, such as watching videos.

Another thing that people are attracted to, is the tiered affiliate program.

Typically, I find the tiered affiliate program over-rated, as most people that sign up to your link do not refer anyone else, (as least that’s my own experience and I have heard the same from others!).

So, the idea is that you earn 20% from your direct referrals and 10% from anyone your referral refers too.

But most people will only refer people on a single tier, as most of their referrals will not recruit any referrals.

You can see some income reports from other people on Cashcrate and how much they’ve made from referrals… So, it is profitable for some people for sure.

I just haven’t personally had success with that and having talked to some other affiliates, they have shared the same experience as far as the two-tiers.

I personally switched from the Cashcrate referral program, to a CPA program with Maxbounty now. They pay $3 per lead.

If your site is somewhat established and you do have some traffic coming in, you may want to sign up to an affiliate network like Maxbounty, or Panthera network, which do pay per sign up.

Don’t be intimidated by Maxbounty, as they do request a phone-call or skype call with every sign up… It’s just to check you out and make sure you’re a real person.

The call is really quick, you only have to let them know if you have any experience with other affiliate networks, what sort of offers you’re interested in and how long you reckon it will take you to drive traffic to the offers.

The amount you get per sign up is going to be subject to change.

For survey sites, anywhere between $1 and $4 is common per sign up, but some do pay more.

I don’t personally actively promote a lot of these, because many either have bad feedback online, or are just ones I didn’t have a great experience with personally!

Which really narrows down the ones I’m prepared to promote, but it’s personal preference.

Your best best is to sign up and just check out what is available.

They have new offers popping up regularly.

So, what about other referral programs?

Referring people to survey sites is just one way to get paid to refer.

With affiliate marketing, you can get paid to recommend people to all sorts of products and services.

Most companies online right now will have an affiliate program attached and as an industry, it’s growing all the time.

You can get paid anything from 1-100% of the sale, (in some cases).

Although between 4%-50% is more common.

One of the biggest and most famous affiliate programs, is the Amazon associates program, (read about it here).

They pay between 4-10% commission on every sale and pay out MILLIONS to their affiliates every year.

But that’s just for starters.

It doesn’t matter what your niche/interest is, you should be able to find an affiliate program to match.

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